Shimoga: Mandarke Madhav Pai breathed his last, during midnight of 16th November 2021 at his Residence in Shimoga.
Mandarke Madhav Pai was born on 21 December 1930 in Karkala, Dakshina Kannada district. He is second son of M Narayan Pai & Lakshmibai.
Mandarke Madhav Pai has written Kannada-Konkani Dictionary, which was published in both Kannada and Devanagari Scripts and took five years to complete.
He has also wrote regular linguistics column in Kodial Khaber Konkani Publication apart from translation of lots of other books to Konkani. He's even won a number of awards, the recent Award was by Kannada Sahitya Parishad for the translation of the Book written by Aurobindo to Kannada by name "Savithri"